- "he had to cancel a trip to Brazil when the government concluded that the cost of providing for Lagerfeld's security would be too great"

- "He hates the telephone, and communicates with the outside world primarily through faxes, which he writes in flowing script with a fountain pen. 'I have a direct line, but I don't even remember the number,' he says. 'I have cell phones, but I don't use them. Personally, it is nearly impossible to reach me.'

- "He has said that he decided never to smoke cigarettes after his mother told him that his hands were exceptionally ugly and that smoking would only draw attention to them; she also told him that his stories were 'so boring' that he should hurry up and tell them—he says this accounts for his rapid speech."